Decades ago, Bernadette Mayer (d. November twenty-second, twenty twenty-two) wrote Midwinter Day on December twenty-second. I've developed a personal ritual of reading it and documenting my own December twenty-second to supplement my collapsing memory. The previous two midwinter days went undocumented. I must rely on a dated archive of digital photographs to remember that I read After Leaving Mr Mackenzie, watched Breakfast at Tiffany's, and went for a walk in the snow. This is an excerpt from...
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A tree inside an atrium lets go of a leaf every few minutes. Soon there won't be anything left to fill the background of a photograph that one has taken of oneself in front of a warm beverage and a pastry. The smiling person might never look at the photograph again, losing it like the tree loses its leaf. I checked for bird droppings after I felt a small tap on the back of my head. There was nothing. Maybe a butterfly confused my head with a flower. I decided long ago that my life will be...
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Following a guide to the city I live in written by an author significant enough to have a plaque affixed to the apartment building she lived in while writing a book turned play turned movie, I spent my spring on pilgrimages to see things that many travel here to see. April 9 I walked across a bridge to where two towers used to stand in the late seventies nearly finished and still surrounded by construction equipment. Fifty years later I had a profound experience of watching the monument's water...
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May 15, 2022 issue of Mail Blog, a free blog sent through the mail. Text that appears in the issue: Arrive Alive: Driving & resting from New York to Nevada, April twenty twenty two Mind on driving, eyes on road. Except for when something killed by a death machine is on the road. Then it's eyes to the sky, or eyes inside, behind lids, for a moment. It took two days to stop thinking about the job and hundreds of miles to remember the name of the famous singer of an eighties band, repeating...
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Mar 26, 2022 issue of Mail Blog, a free blog sent through the mail. Text that appears in the issue: The Morgan Library & Museum, noon, fifty five degrees, light rain Nobody looks happy. I don't either. I am wearing my public face to protect my personal space. We're all visiting property converted into an institution to preserve and display the wealth that no longer belongs to a wealthy person because he is dead. The cafe is crowded with older people who cut in line to ask the busy cafe...
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Feb 14, 2022 issue of Mail Blog, a free blog sent through the mail. Text that appears in the issue: As we grow accustomed to this new format, I am also turning the focus of the content onto my public journals. They start with publicly writing in a journal for three hours in one location. It is an investigation of the private in the public. To see another artifact of this process read "Yes Plants Do Feel" published by Issue Press. I will continue to include revelatory quotes, my way of...
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Dec 28, 2021 issue of Mail Blog, a free blog sent through the mail. Text that appears in the issue: Mail Blog will now be sent one page at a time. Whenever the project ends someday, you can staple all the loose pages together to create one big zine. "the poetry we can't find is a whole new earth" —Alice Notley, Women and Poetry Her laugh turns into a sob and back into a laugh. Like when she tried to eat lasagna while wearing a cloth napkin over her head so no one could see her...
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Oct 31, 2021 issue of Mail Blog, a free blog sent through the mail. Text that appears in the issue: Mail Blog is a free blog sent through the mail. Trades or donations are not required. Monetary donations can be sent to your favorite creative reuse shop, Wikipedia, and Internet Archive. To limit material waste, notify me if you wish to be removed from the mailing list or if you have a new mailing address. When issues are returned, I will pause on sending until I hear otherwise. — CC...
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August 23, 2021 issue of Mail Blog, a free blog sent through the mail. Text that appears in the issue: "The past is not such a good neighbor. It knocks when it wants, but it won't let you in." —Bette Howland, How We Got The Old Woman To Go Marie Spartali Stillman was a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood first as a favorite model but trained and became a respected painter with one of the longest-running careers, spanning sixty years with over one hundred and fifty works....
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